''Honor Up'' is a 2018 action film directed and co-written by

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and executive produced by

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. Starring Dash,

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and

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, the film was released on February 16, 2018 to generally negative reviews.

Plot

A drug lord becomes embroiled in a fierce fight to maintain his honor after a deadly gun attack in

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's neighborhood of

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Cast

as OG/Narrator *

as JR *

as Detective Kean *

as Primo *

as Mike *

as Tara *

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as Dee * Smokey Suarez as Flip

Reception

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'' critic Michael Rechtshaffen stated: "A criminally inept throwback to '90s urban gangsta movie posturing that plays like a stone-faced version of the 1996 Wayans brothers spoof, ''

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''". According to

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'', the movie "sometimes manages to bring a scary whiff of the street into its sounds and images".

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, 7642326, Honor Up 2018 films 2018 action films Films directed by Damon Dash 2010s English-language films American crime action films 2010s hood films 2010s American films English-language crime films English-language action films